World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
31
Citations
4565
World Ranking
7511
National Ranking
3661

Best Publications

  • The Causal Effects of Father Absence

    Sara McLanahan;Laura Tach;Daniel Schneider

  • Parenting as a "Package Deal": Relationships, Fertility, and Nonresident Father Involvement Among Unmarried Parents

    Laura Tach;Ronald Mincy;Kathryn Edin

  • Economic Insecurity and Social Stratification

    Bruce Western;Deirdre Bloome;Benjamin Sosnaud;Laura Tach

  • The protective effects of neighborhood collective efficacy on British children growing up in deprivation: a developmental analysis.

    Candice L. Odgers;Terrie E. Moffitt;Laura Marie Tach;Robert J. Sampson

  • Learning-related behaviors, cognitive skills, and ability grouping when schooling begins

    Laura Marie Tach;George Farkas

  • Claiming Fatherhood: Race and the Dynamics of Paternal Involvement among Unmarried Men

    Kathryn Jo Edin;Laura Tach;Ronald Mincy

  • More than Bricks and Mortar: Neighborhood Frames, Social Processes, and the Mixed‐Income Redevelopment of a Public Housing Project

    Laura M. Tach

  • The Role of Earned Income Tax Credit in the Budgets of Low-Income Households

    Ruby Mendenhall;Kathryn Jo Edin;Susan Crowley;Jennifer Sykes

  • Trends in the Economic Consequences of Marital and Cohabitation Dissolution in the United States

    Laura M. Tach;Alicia Eads

  • Heterogeneity in Two‐Parent Families and Adolescent Well‐Being

    Sarah Halpern‐Meekin;Laura Tach

  • Would Equal Opportunity Mean More Mobility

    Christopher Jencks;Laura Tach

  • The Social Safety Net After Welfare Reform: Recent Developments and Consequences for Household Dynamics

    Laura Tach;Kathryn Edin

  • “Robbing Peter to Pay Paul”: Economic and Cultural Explanations for How Lower-Income Families Manage Debt

    Laura M. Tach;Sara Sternberg Greene

  • How Does Premarital Cohabitation Affect Trajectories of Marital Quality

    Laura Tach;Sarah Halpern‐Meekin

  • Tax Code Knowledge and Behavioral Responses Among EITC Recipients: Policy Insights from Qualitative Data

    Katharine Edin;Laura Tach;Sarah Halpern-Meekin

  • Public housing redevelopment, neighborhood change, and the restructuring of urban inequality

    Laura Tach;Allison Dwyer Emory

  • Trends in Income Insecurity Among U.S. Children, 1984–2010

    Bruce Western;Deirdre Bloome;Benjamin Sosnaud;Laura M. Tach

  • Trajectories of Ethnoracial Diversity in American Communities, 1980-2010.

    Matthew Hall;Laura Tach;Barrett A. Lee

  • The Racial Composition of Neighborhoods and Local Schools: The Role of Diversity, Inequality, and School Choice:

    Kendra Bischoff;Laura Tach

  • Social Mobility in an Era of Family Instability and Complexity

    Laura Tach

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